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Crowley adds new U.S. Northeast ocean service with Central America

Freight Waves

Non-stop service via Crowley’s state-of-the-art LNG-powered vessels translates directly into reduced inventory idle time and lower supply chain costs for businesses.

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Unease Remains in U.S. East and Gulf Coast Labor Talks

Supply Chain Matters

Much of this added container volume is attributed to either retailers front-loading their Q4 inventory purchases, or diversions related either to the likely threat of a U.S. port is that of Philadelphia , which is ranked 50 th globally. The volume reportedly averaged 939,000 TEU’s for each of these three months.

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Trends 2025: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

With these solutions, supply chains can proactively address disruptions and minimize delays and inventory shortages. Smart warehouses are also using robotics and AI to accelerate inventory management and order fulfilment to not only reduce reliance on human labor but also provide scalability to meet fluctuating demands.”

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Will interest rates continue to climb in 2016, and if so, what impact will it have on inventory levels?

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How Do I Know If I Am Ready?

Supply Chain Shaman

The average client that has implemented demand sensing technologies has reduced inventory by 11%. Yes, it may decrease short-term sales, but in the longer-term it will increase customer service, reduce inventory and improve the execution of new product launch and trade promotions. I will be landing soon in Philadelphia.

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Congratulating the Supply Chains to Admire Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

It is now our fifth year of analyzing balance sheets to understand which companies are outperforming their peer groups on the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while driving improvement. Wal-Mart and TJX Orbit Chart for Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. On October 15th, I will be speaking on the Qunitiq World Tour in Philadelphia. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck. They are slow to adapt.